The Japan-India-Africa Business Forum, held on February 26, 2025, marked a strategic step in strengthening the India-Japan ...

Three months on, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff spree in April 2025 continue to reverberate across East Asia. The United States ...

Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of ...

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Bottom Line Lao PDR envisions becoming the “Battery of Southeast Asia” by exporting hydropower to neighboring countries through the regional power grid designed to reach ASEAN’s goal of net-zero ...

Translating broad strategic guidance into workable strategies and sustainable policies requires both an assessment of the international security environment as well as an analysis of what the domestic ...

Rare earth metals or “rare earths,” a collection of 17 elements[1] that are valued for their conductive and magnetic properties, have made headlines again. Over the past year and a half, their prices ...

“Screw the president,” “screw the government,” and “punch the prosecutor in the throat.” These are only three snippets of salacious conversations that took place between Latvian business and political ...

Turkey benefits economically and politically from Assad’s fall, but tensions with the Kurdish-led SDF, Gulf states, Israel, and Iran highlight competing ambitions and risks of instability in Syria’s ...

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Asia Times under the title “US-South Africa ties explode on Russia arms claim.” The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put tremendous strain on the ...

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus was the rare former Soviet state that remained strategically aligned with the Russian Federation. In 1999, Russia and Belarus reached an agreement to ...